apotheosis
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The Portuguese design genius for mixing the pious with playfully overelaborated touches reaches its apotheosis at this Unesco World Heritage site—Portugal’s equivalent of France’s monumental Cathedral of Chartres.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Which brings me to what I believe is the modern apotheosis of the genre.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025
This revisionist history reached its apotheosis with a 2007 essay collection edited by the historians Kenneth T. Jackson and Hilary Ballon.
From Slate • Sep. 16, 2024
Sunset Sound represents the apotheosis of the recording industry’s heyday.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
He was no ordinary scholar, this man, but the apotheosis of scholars: the most famous personage in Zosma, save the queen and the hierarch, and the most popular, bar none.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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